After early technical failures on the federal exchange, as well as some state exchanges, the Congressional Budget Office lowered their estimate of first year Obamacare enrollees by 1 million. Since then various members of the administration have tried to lower our expectations. Given that the administration and several state-run exchanges have announced extended "special enrollment" periods, the question now is how close the administration will get to 7 million. The mix of healthy and sick is more important to the economics of the system, but the overall number is what will look a little better as Democrats head in to the midterms.